Audio

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eddie Lenihan on "Meeting the Other Crowd"

Eddie Lenihan tells a story told to him by the foreman of a road construction crew in Ireland.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bill Gurstelle on Backyard Ballistics

Engineer Bill Gurstelle loves things that go BOOM! Gurstelle tells Jim Fleming how to build and operate the Potato Cannon and a Roman catapult.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Carlat on the Psychiatric Crisis

Tufts Medical School psychiatrist Daniel Carlat believes psychiatry is in crisis.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Franklin Foer on "How Soccer Explains the World"

Franklin Foer tells Steve Paulson how soccer's international popularity leads to exchanges of players and coaches among many countries...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eoin Colfer on Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer is the author of the Artemis Fowl books.  There are five of them now. The latest on is called "The Lost Colony."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Amir Aczel on "Chance"

Amir Aczel tells Jim Fleming that your odds on a coin toss are always 50/50, no matter how many times you do it.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Adam Hochschild on the Anti-Slavery Movement

Journalist Adam Hochschild says the anti-slavery movement in Britain 200 years ago invented many of the political tools and tactics today's protesters still use.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Andy Bichlbaum on "The Yes Men Fix the World"

Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are The Yes Men. They pose as the World Trade Organization or major corporate entities to pull off pranks as political action.

Pages

Subscribe to Audio